-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:26:18PM +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: >And is distinguishing between other linux distros and Sugar even >desirable? > >My macbook is off to be repaired so I can't test, but AFAIK both the >SoaS and the .iso should be recognised as Linux by rEFIt and booted.
Sugar is *not* a Linux distribution! OLPC is/provides a Linux distribution, in that it contains the classic GNU/Linux base (Linux kernel + some GNU userspace tools) and the Sugar desktop environment on top of that. SoaS is a Linux distribution too. MacOS X is a non-Linux distribution, consisting of the Darwin base with Aqua on top. Debian is a distribution providing (in testing and unstable at least) a choice of multiple bases (Linux, kFreeBSD, Hurd) and multiple desktops (GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, GNUstep and a half-baked Sugar). Sugar itself is distributed (as is most free software), but is not an operating system + some userspace. I would suspect that rEFIt not recognize X11 desktops, and not userspace parts - only kernels. But even if rEFIt recognizes desktops, how to then resolve which is the _main_ desktop, and if the main desktop is the preferred environment over e.g. the terminal or some virtual (X11-based or not) environment. Hope that clarifies (and feel free to disagree with my judgements!). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkoUMKkACgkQn7DbMsAkQLhxwwCfTfaMnDN9Xf+4hmSHk+kCGWBP rnYAoIYMb7mBK8Xgx4DJs0LGXxtETiP2 =Dz99 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
